CHAPTER TEN
“Are you sure you need to travel back tonight?” Eve said, holding onto Shane’s hands. “It’s ever so dark now.”
Shane nodded. “We’ll be fine, Ma. Don’t worry.”
He pulled open the driver’s door but didn’t get a chance to get inside because his sisters tackled him from behind.
“Stay!” they cried.
“We want to have a sleepover with Keira,” Hannah whined.
Keira desperately wanted to stay the night—for the rest of her life, if she was being honest with herself—but her anxiety over her piece was starting to rear its head again, no thanks to Joshua’s curt email. Only now the pressure was even worse because she was wrestling with the addition of feelings of self-loathing.
“I’m sorry,” Shane told his youngest sister. “But I’ll bring Keira back another day, okay? She’s here for the
